- This blog is mainly used for my own documentation/deployment of difficult or undocumented projects that I find interesting, as well as random things that I might find interesting and worthwhile to write about.
- My interests are Linux/Hypervisor, OSS and self-hosting. I do homelab stuff also, since it’s a learning thing to have hands-on experience, I guess.
- I also break my systems a lot.
Originally, I’ve wanted a new computer to replace my current one. It’s an old Xeon E3-1230v2 with 4 cores and 8 threads, with more than enough power to ‘currently’ support the stuff that I use/host. However, the expandability was not so great: A H61 motherboard with 2 DDR3 ram slots, at a maximum of 16GB total. The machine was also used for regular web browsing and writing for this website (yay) as a secondary computer so there’s no room to add more stuff....
Tools for Windows specifically Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) Open source, one of the most widely used activation script. Used by MS support employees, so why not? The script source code is even hosted on GitHub, which itself is owned & operated by Microsoft. MAS provides activation for nearly all Windows and Office distributions, even ones that you didn’t know existed. They have activation methods different from tools like KMSPico and other volume-based licensing, which is cool....
I currently have two HDD drives of identical sizes (not identical in form factor and brand though), and since they are not used fully (<50% storage remaining for both), I feel like it’s good to setup a RAID1 array for increased read speed and data reliability. Two HDDs were used, and I’m on EndeavourOS Galileo for this. Transferring data & backing up. First, I move my data from the WD HDD to the other HDD using rsync:...